After Her Friend Passed Away, Her Brother Gave Her A Teddy Bear With Her Friend’s Voice And She’s Asking The Internet If It Was Wrong Of Her To Refuse To Give The Bear To Her Friend’s Girlfriend
A 20-year-old woman lost her best friend James just a week before Christmas. He was on his way home from college when he got into a car accident and sadly passed away.
She came down with COVID and wasn’t able to attend James’s funeral, which was very hard on her, and she spent her Christmas this year alone in her room grieving the loss of her friend.
“My brother decided to get a build-a-bear with a voice recording of James saying, “Happy birthday ugly, I love you”, “Ahh! I’m so proud of you!”, and an off-key rendition of “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by Fergie,” she explained.
“He found the audios from old videos: my 18th birthday, the day I got accepted into my 1st choice college, and a day we did karaoke. The bear was dressed in baseball gear as well (my friend played baseball).”
“I broke down sobbing when I received it. It’s my favorite gift. I couldn’t stop hugging it and listening to the audios.”
“James and I were friends since the second grade, so having the bear meant a lot to me. I showed everyone and posted it on social media.”
James had been dating a girl named Kayla for 4 years before he passed away, and she never was all that close to Kayla.
She’s been friendly towards her, but they just never got to be friends. As soon as Kayla saw the bear that her brother got her with recordings of James’s voice, Kayla sent her a text asking if she could have the bear.
Kayla’s reasoning was that she didn’t have audio recordings of James saying adorable things like the bear did, so she wanted to have it.
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She is sympathetic to Kayla, but she didn’t want to give the bear to her at all. She did say that she was happy to send Kayla the videos that her brother used to make the bear, but Kayla insisted that was not the same as getting to have the bear for herself.
“She said since she was the one dating him, she should get the bear,” she said. Kayla screamed and cried when she refused to give her the bear.
Kayla wound up making her cry, but still, she didn’t want to give the bear away to her.
“Eventually she posted on social media how horrible I was for refusing to give it to her,” she continued.
“Some people messaged me saying to just give it to her and get another bear. Some people said it’s an impossible situation and gave their condolences.”
Her own family thinks that Kayla is experiencing grief and lashing out and in time will get over it, but Kayla has not.
Kayla continued to harass her, and Kayla’s friends did too, so she was forced to reactive her social media profiles.
She’s wondering if she’s wrong for refusing to give Kayla the bear since she knows James was in love with her and wanted to marry her one day.
She’s not sure what James would have wanted her to do in this situation.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“James didn’t give you the bear, your brother had it made for you in memory of your best friend.”
“Kayla can have her own made or those friends who are so involved and are telling you to give her yours can pay for Kayla to get her own.”
“I agree, Kayla should make her own bear. She could ask everyone including James’ family to send her videos with audio of him and pick her own phrases.”
“There has to be more audio of him talking without goofy voices.”
“It’s very odd. It’s fully within their power to get their own bear, or literally, any other commemorative gift they could think of, stuffed or otherwise.”
“It baffles me that her “friends” won’t take the time to make her a bear of her own, especially after you’ve offered the recordings to everyone.”
“I get she’s grieving, so her behavior might be excusable, I’ll leave that to op ultimately. Her friends though?”
“That’s despicable. Kayla doesn’t have a monopoly on grief. You loved him as much as she did, even if not quite the same way.”
“If the girlfriend wants a bear of her own, she can take the videos you offered and make her own. Grief doesn’t give someone a pass to demand someone give them their belongings. Period.”
“I also don’t understand the GF would want voice recordings of things that are not even about her.”
“She thinks that via the bear, and not the videos, she can pretend it’s about her? No matter how much you’re grieving, that’s rubbish – she wants to pretend via someone else’s memories”
“Your brother made you something using audio of things James said to YOU. Kayla is disrespecting your friendship with James.”
“Exactly why would she want a bear of recordings that James had said to someone else? It’s super creepy of her to want it.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say here.
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